{"id":1218,"date":"2008-10-10T08:20:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:20:25","slug":"of-men-and-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/10\/10\/of-men-and-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Men and Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two quick hits:\u00c2\u00a0 While Obama and McCain were duking it out in Nashville this week, a rather brilliant student I met while speaking last month at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upstateupstarts.blogspot.com\/\">USC Upstate <\/a>shared her thoughts on alternative portrayals of masculinity on TV, and its social implications, over at the Popular &amp; American Culture Associations in the South conference taking place this week in Louisville, KY.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goupstate.com\/article\/20081009\/NEWS\/810090270\/1083\/NEWS01?Title=Upstate_senior_to_present_research_paper\">More here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of, finally a guy doesn&#8217;t have to be a pussy to love a cat, reports my fellow Invisible Institute-er Abby Ellin in the NYTimes.\u00c2\u00a0 Most funny quote from one of the guys Abby interviewed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/05\/fashion\/05cats.html?partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">&#8220;Sorry Fido, It&#8217;s Just a Guy Thing&#8221;<\/a>: &#8221; A man with a cat&#8230; &#8216;is secure with himself.\u00c2\u00a0 He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sharing his space with a predator.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, cats are the new macho accessory?\u00c2\u00a0 Amelia (whose picture I am not posting only because Kristen has yet to give me my remedial lesson in Flickr) purrs approvingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quick hits:\u00c2\u00a0 While Obama and McCain were duking it out in Nashville this week, a rather brilliant student I met while speaking last month at USC Upstate shared her thoughts on alternative portrayals of masculinity on TV, and its social implications, over at the Popular &amp; American Culture Associations in the South conference taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1976],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-masculinity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}